The Indus Valley Civilization once stretched across nearly 1.25 million square kilometers, rivaling Egypt and Mesopotamia in scale and sophistication. Its cities featured grid-based layouts, ...

Easter 2026 is fast approaching. Here's a look at why the date of Easter changes every year and what to know about the holiday.

Forget standard tasting notes. Jill Weber’s eccentric wine flights are paired with ancient mysteries and quirky stories about civilizations past.

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A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid. Ziggurats were common in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq) from around 4,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ziggurat of Ur is in modern-day Iraq. حسن/Unsplash A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping ...

The penultimate day of the Valentine's Week is celebrated as Kiss Day. While the celebration is comparatively new, the act is ancient and significant.

The Sphinx sits right next to a pharaoh’s pyramid complex, which makes many historians think it was built to watch over his tomb.

Until now, it was believed that mathematical thinking only began once people gained the knowledge of numbers and writing. However, a new study reveals a potentially earlier origin of math hidden in ...

8,000-year-old pottery shards reveal ancient Mesopotamians understood maths before numbers invented - Decoration of pottery and seals in Halafian culture reflects high level of mathematical awareness, ...

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